Read the story of Barabbas and Jesus in the Gospel of Mathews Chapter 27:17. All of us including Tamirat are but Barabbas. Jesus died in the place of Barabbas, in the place of me, and you. So, we should all rejoice witnessing the power of God onto salvation. Some even wondered what if Meles come forward and accept Jesus Christ. I say Glory to God. In fact, it is my prayer and it should be yours too that even Meles receives salvation which is a free gift of God.

Our theme should be in the forgiveness of sins. John 8:1-11 and John 8:21-24. The message of forgiveness comes through very strongly in the story of the woman caught in. In this story, we have not only Jesus and the woman. We also have "the scribes and the Pharisees" (John 8:2). This is a story about (a) Jesus – the One who gives forgiveness; (b) the woman – the one who received forgiveness; (c) the scribes and the Pharisees -the people who refused forgiveness. Many of you, reading your comments, are like the scribes and the Pharisees. She would never forget the words which Jesus spoke to her: "Neither do I condemn you; go, and do not sin again" (John 8:11). In these words, Jesus speaks of the grace which forgives the sins of the past, the grace which lays claim to our lives in the future. Jesus stresses that those who have been forgiven by Him are to go on and live for Him. That and that is only Tamirat’s debt.

God bless you. I will leave these messages Please read a Bible on 2 Thimo 2-1 and Ephes 6+ 10-20

ጥንቱን ነበረ እንጂ መጥኖ መደቆስ
አሁን ምን ያደርጋል ድስት ጥዶ ማልቀስ

Thank you for not posting. But, as an Ethiopian my vies shpould have been posted. I am Oromo and I am an Ethiopian. As an Oromo and an Ethiopian, my right needed to be respected and the posts need to be posted but the Ethiopian review writers deprived me of my right. Thank you.

But still truth jugdges Tamirat and his Party TPLF.

For sure, what you have done is not for the sake of your soul!!! Being part of the TPLF thugs, you have choosen this stratagy:
(1) to hide your past wrongdeeds;
(2) and anticipating a cheap popularity among the Protestant community.

What I strongly feel that you have contributed so much for the current pitfall of our country. You have to be accountable for that and still look for the return of robbed huge money to the Ethiopian people. Your move doesn't give you an amnesty from this clam!!!

I am, however, appreciating your wishi-washi talent in forcasting your rejection by the majority(normally, you are NEBSE BELA!) As you well aware, you are unimportant and a rank-and-file person in the current Ethiopia.

You have also said that you came to know Christ just in recent time. Yes, based on what you did in EPDRF, you were pagan. But if your attempt is to demonize Orthodox reliegion, I think, no protestant claims Orthodox doesn't know Christ as this religion existed before Martin Luther (Germany).

At last, our Protestant brothers and sisters could not applause your move as your enterrance to their communal doesn't garantee the truthness of their religion. Rather it paints them with black ink.

Please shut up your mouth and be away from the media!! we are sickening by your attempt to come back to public domain!!

Yosef A. (Germany)

Religious fanatism serves for those who lost confidence in themselves and primarly in the society. We know Tamrat is ready to kill and steal in the name of Jesus as he did in the name of Prolitariants. Then he denied God and now he denied reason, science and all the values he stood for once.Typical of hipocrat-sociopats. Let him tell that to his religion-crazy funs not to the peole of Ethiopia.

Once a sociopat always sociopat. I don't mean to shoot the jackal that has already died. This is science not politics. If you dont trust me ask your nearest shrink.I'm dead right.

Yes,millions of dollars at bank in his daughters name in swizerland that stolen from poor destitute people, he has a reason to cry in 'joy' not in greif. Beyond that denying the power of the struggle that carried him to the post of Prime minster is a comical, confused and non-amortaizing empity game.

Religious fanatism serves for those who lost confidence in themselves and primarly in the society. We know Tamrat is ready to kill and steal in the name of Jesus as he did in the name of Prolitariants. Then he denied God and now he denied reason, science and all the values he stood for once.Typical of hipocrat-sociopats. Let him tell that to his religion-crazy funs not to the peole of Ethiopia.

Once a sociopat always sociopat. I don't mean to shoot the jackal that has already died. This is science not politics. If you dont trust me ask your nearest shrink.I'm dead right.

But I am personally impressed and more than pleased to read the short but out of the box view point fowarded by Adabay who in my humble opinion correctly claimed that the issue may neither be about politics nor about religion alone but can also be the story of a mortal human transformation and struggle for survival.

Thanks a lot Adabay for taking the issue out of the box and indicating the world of all possibilities.

I am not a religious person myself too, but I respect all religions and faith groups in as much as they refrain from causing harm to others but keep to the spiritual welfare and physical well being of their respective followers.

What is the big deal FOLKS if spiritually, physically and psychologically embattled, cornerd weak individuals and groups take to their religion and associate with the all mighty, the omnipotent, omnipresent empowering great GOD, whatever that means and wherever that might be or not be?

Folks, this guy might have experienced exceptional and extreme tragedies which none of us may not be able to imagine even in our life time and beyond. I have never seen him live nor even his picture before this video presentation but this is heart breaking as far as I am concerned.

What kind of government and what kind of brutality is able to completely crush basic human pride and elementary human degnity in such a shocking manner or is it basic and routine method of interactions in the form of exorcism, etc.(driving Satan out of the troubled soul and replacing it with a caring devine?)among some religious communities? Hmm…

Adabay says:

This has nothing to do with poltics guys. It is about human transformation. I am not a member of any any church or or religious institution, but this has led me to think "what could have he exprienced to be so changed tremndously?". We are so obsessed with poltics and filled with so much hatred tha we can not see life beyond politics.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/18/newsid_2540000/2540209.stm

but, i was also wondering why are you so angry with him? whatever he did, he is just an individual, we all have our portions as sinners, and as a word of God says, there is no distinction among sin!! theft is a sin and murder is too. as ordinary citizens and human beings we all do all bad stuffs and caused so much pain on others, knowingly or otherwise.

God knows what we would have done if we were given a chance to be where he was! we never knew how were would have reacted. let us not be so judgemental.

it is his choice to follow what ever he wanted to! let alone Jesus christ, who is above all! God bless you tamirat! God bless our forsaken country!!

It is obvious this man is a broken and angry man, but a change man…don’t let him fool you. I don’t hear him confessing his sins, giving back all the money he has taken and ask for forgiveness for the crimes he has committed on innocent people.

Neko respond. Regarding Tamrat salivation and Meles regime.

let me start by saying hello dear Ethiopians, and this particular resopnd may apply to Miskir and some of you who share Miskir's ideology.I don't think no one has confusion about God's judgment. He ,GOD, only judges and forgives people,by they way not you Miskir. you can't talk on behalf of God becouse he,God, who is the only one knows his judgment and he doesn't share with people. He forgives and punishes. only God do what ever he think is right, but not us.So lets not interfere on someting that doesn't cocern us at all. Rgarding our poletical leaders agin you are worgn. didn't you see it, it is not the person who are needing for change but rather the law that treat and govern every single person equally.There are very bad people and even worst than meles yet they mange to prosper and florish their country becouse they have a good system. what we should do is to confront meles and his deciples about justice and fairness.changing parties doesn't change Ethiopian development rather it is devastating. Didn't you learn from past. Haleselase crumbled by Mengistu and so on. so i ask you agin did you see change? Well i leav it up to you to strighten your thinking.you see people like you making meles regime so cruel to the point where it is gross. Now i ask you not to be devisve. If you you and others like you continue talk aout hatrate ,meles and his deciples or other parties will contunually supress our poor people for no good reasons, so please educate your self. Be vigilant every word you write or say. I hope you know what is right unless you are Meles. I don't care who is on power rather i care the person on power weather he/she implemets good system like America so that our people will exercise teir voting power or any thing in that regard as others developed nation do. Let God open up our mind and eyes to see and speak up the truth.

Colossians 3:13
Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you
Mark 11:25
And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive him, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.

Repentance

What does repentance mean? The Greek in the the New Testament has a distinction between various levels of repentance that we should definitely care and be concerned about. There is the repentance where you realize what you did was wrong, but you don't seem to care that much about it. Then, there is the repentance where you see what you've done is wrong, change your heart, and do not do it again. The first falls into the category of "nice, but not good enough;" it's the second that is required.
Given that we have sinned against God, no matter whether it's also against someone else or not, we must repent to God, possibly in addition to the person we wronged as well. By the act of Jesus's dying on the cross, we have a way to do this– we can pray and talk to God directly.

There is also the person(s) we have sinned against. We have hurt them, even if they don't realize it, and so we should repent to them as well. Going to them and admitting your sin is a good first step. John the Baptist tells us in Matthew 3:8 to produce fruit in keeping with repentance; if we sincerely repent, we will behave differently. Who we are or how important we think we are makes no difference; we have to produce this fruit, as John commands in Luke 3:8. Repentance is a change of attitude and action, not just muttering, "Oh, I screwed up. God forgive me," and not restoring your harmed brother.

What is restoration? Something that depends on the sin committed, and what God convicts you to do. If you have stolen, giving it back would be a good start. Concerning sin that results in physical damage or loss, the Old Testament demands full restitution plus 20%, something which is a good model to start with. Yes, paying back all that extra hurts, but remember that you hurt the other first, and that the 20% is an added incentive not to sin in the first place.

Repentance, obviously, should be sincere and should be accompanied by actions that reflect a change of heart. It is not a trivial matter. The Bible does give a few examples of repenting to other people. The parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:21) is one example. David repenting to Nathan (II Samuel 12:13-15) is another example. Notice that since David sinned publicly, he paid for it publicly. As stated above, you must repent to God and whomever you have sinned against; sin publicly, you must repent publicly.

Once we have repented, we have the promise of forgiveness. 1 John states it quite well: 9 "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness."

Thus, by properly and in a timely manner dealing with our sins, we have the promise of total and permanent repentance. What a great thing.

"…Hatred for acknowledging your
sins to God is far more better
than receiving mercy from millions
of biased individuals…".

If Tamirat is okay for God,
Who can be against him?

At the end of the day every one of us are going to leave this world you are not going to take your nationalism with you nor can you take your ethiopianism with you. Ethiopianism is not going to save you therefore it is time for you guys to invest in your eternal life rather than filling yourself with national pride that does not even last a century.
tebareku

You seem to be irrational and blinded by hate. He said he is saved by Jesus Christ from the tyranny of the devil's power( be it atheism,communism,idolatry,capitalism,or religion).

Those of you who are demonizing or criticizing him may be if you yourselves search your soul could,should or would find crime or shortcoming in your lives. Sin is sin,I believe whether small or big.It starts with hate and if you hate you are a killer if you find an opportunity,so don't lie and tell us you are an angel. Who on earth could say except the Lord Jesus Christ,I have never sin or committed crime.
I would rather wish you to grow up and broaden your understanding toward your fellow human beings. Love is the invincible force now and forever but hate,malice and all evil forces are weak and will be defeated forever.

So ,I encourage all of you to open your blind eyes and see beyond your horizon and be the agent of forgiveness,tolerance not revenge and retribution.Because like begot likes.Thus, in order to appreciate the beauty of love and goodness or the other side where you have never been you need to try it or taste it.

May Love reign in Ethiopia and the whole world.

Zecharias Andemariam from Seattle.

Dear Zenash,

Thank you for responding again. Even though you feel like fighting for your religion, it was not the case with me. The reason is that my God is Mighty and a living God. He never expects me to fight for Him or defend Him. My duty in this world is just to witness His love to the world.

All I have been trying to let you understand is the greatness of the Love and Mercy of God, which is revealed to us through Jesus Christ. At the end of this world everybody will be asked about what he/she has done with the love he gave us. What matters is weather you have accepted and lived by it or you have ignored it. A book of sin is not needed at that time. So, my Lord Jesus doesn't want me to keep a record of the sins of others, but to tell sinners about the saving Love and Mercy of God by which all records of our sins are written off.

Please, keeping records of others' sins and going after them is a very difficult, risky and unprofitable business. Instead, being a witness for the love of God is simpler, and it is rewarded in this and the coming world.

God Bless You!

If you have patient, please this video and may be that will open your mind. It shows the drama being played by Pente preachers on those poor innocent souls like the one you have. You can start watching from the begining or from the 2:00 minute on wards to better understand my message for you.

http://www.ethiotube.net/video/2207/THE-ETHIO-PENTE-ART-OF-MANIPULATION-The-Battle-for-Your-Mind

God bless